Rare Mutations Mean Less Disease Correlation
May 20, 2012
May 21, 2012 | In a paper released last week in Science, researchers at the University of Washington show that most genetic variations in people are rare and evolutionarily recent. The findings further reinforce the changes being made to how we think about correlating genetic changes with diseases. In studying 2,440 people in Europe and Africa, most genetic mutations were found to be new, novel, or population-specific. BloombergÂ